The article deals with the issues of engineering arrangement of the territory for the nursery and the mother plant garden of common hazel - the layout of the nursery, the choice of the irrigation method, the calculation of the reservoir volume, irrigation rates, and production efficiency.

The most important condition for the rational organization of the territory is the formation of a morphological appearance, which is distinguished by high productivity, ecological diversity, aesthetic appeal, and will satisfy sanitary and hygienic requirements. The use of land resources in the Alagirskii District of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania and the development of measures for rational organization of the territory, with the creation of an effective system of land use, evaluation criteria of environmental reliability, social acceptability, economic efficiency and compliance with the legal regime of land use, are a necessary condition for the rational use of land. In this work, materials of land inventory for 2016–2018, data of the committee of land and property relations of the district, statistical data on the effectiveness of agricultural land were used. The developed data allows to establish the optimal ratio of natural ecosystems and agro-ecosystems for this natural-agricultural zone, to establish optimal areas of arable and forage lands that need improvement based on the landscape features of the territory for stability and development of agricultural production.

The article deals with the transformation of unproductive hay and pasture lands to intensively used perennial plantings of hazelnuts. The authors evaluate the productivity of the transformed lands.